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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1961
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& M Observes 85th Anniversary
Oldest University
Born Oct. 4,1876
OMPLETED BY ’63
Cost
Projects
$10 Million
A $10 million building program on campus and an ex
pansion of college facilities is scheduled to be completed by
1963. The construction has been underway for three years.
The two largest projects remaining in the five-year plan
ve a $828,225 plant for the Division of Architecture and a
$196,080 Olympic-type outdoor swimming pool.
Howard Badgett, manager of the college’s physical plant,
said the new architecture building will be located between
tfce museum and the Civil Engineering Building on the east
side of the campus. The contract has been awarded by the
Board of Directors to William Matera, Inc., of San Antonio.
The 47,000 square foot structure will have a thr,ee-story
main building with partial 4
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_ b;.sement and a two-story lab-
oratory building. Plans call
for close association and co-
oi dination of research and
n< uiemic work.
■ Other features of the architec-
Hre building; will he a lighting;
dime and airflow chamber of a
nf .v design.
■ Badgett said the outdoor swim-
Hing pool will be L-shaped, lf>5
Het by GO feet in the main area,
Bth a projection 75 feet wide and
4' feet long at the end. The con-
Hart has been awarded to R. B.
Bjutler, Inc., of Bryan on a bid of
96,080. A gift of $75,000 toward
nstruction costs will be provided
the Association of Former Stu
nts.
Location will be just west of the
L. Downs Jr. Natatorium.
■ The long leg of the pool will
lave eight 165-foot lanes and the
^nort leg will have six 75-foot
lilnes. Depth of the main area
I vfill be 4 to 4V4 feet, and the
snort ni-ea will be 9 to 15 feet
■ In the diving area will be two
^■-meter boards, two 3-meter
Hoards, a 5-meter platform and a
ItO-meter platform.
Construction is expected to be-
fm late in October and the pool
ould be ready for use by June,
J%2.
Buildings complete, or nearly
lomplete, are the Nuclear Science
I’enter, the W. T. Doherty Petro
leum Engineering Building, the
Data Processing Center, the Mili
tary Science Building (new wing),
Plant Sciences Building and the
Hew wing of the Physics Building.
Herman Heep
Honored By
Dairy Shrine
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Old Army On Parade
This picture, circa about 1890, shows the old armory. Today marks the 85th birthday
Corp of Cadets ready to pass in review, of A&M, Texas’ oldest institution of higher
The cadets are formed up in front of the learning.
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Reporters Sought
For Batt
Would you like to write for
The Battalion?
A meeting of all prospective
Battmen will be held Thursday
at 7:30 p.m. in the Battalion
office. Room 4, YMCA Building.
Anyone interested in reporting
for the paper is welcome. The
meeting is not restricted to
journalism majors.
A portrait of the late Herman
F. Heep, former member of the
A&M System Board of Directors,
was unveiled in the Dairy Shrine I
Club Building in Waterloo, Iowa,
today.
Twenty-seven students and three
Heep’s portrait was one of four p ro f essors from the University of
portraits of national figures in the | Guadalajara, Mexico, concluded a
American dairy industry added to four-day stay on cartipus today.
Latin Group Ends
Eco Study Here
the shrine.
A native of Buda, Tex., Heep
was an animal husbandry student
at A&M in 1916-17 and later
studied at the University of Wis
consin after World War I. During
the war he advanced from private
to an infantry second lieutenant.
Heep went into the oil business
after his tenure at Wisconsin, rais
ing cattle as a pastime. He was
president of his own oil company
by the time he was 30.
He began extensive dairy opera
tions on the family farm in the
1930’s and soon established a lead
ing milk business in Austin.
He was a member of the Texas
Jersey Cattle Club, serving in all
its offices. He was also awarded
its Master Breeder award.
In 1949 Heep was appointed to
the State Fish and Game Com
mission, one of the many organiza
tions he played influential roles in.
He served with the commission
until 1957.
Heep was named chairman of
the A&M Development Fund from
1950-1960, and served as a fund
trustee from 1955-1960.
He was a member of the Board
of Directors from 1957-1960, and
was elected chairman of the Com
mittee of Governing Boards of
State Colleges and Universities in
1958.
The undergraduAte economics
majors made A&M their first stop
on a nation-wide tour sponsored
by the U. S. State Department.
The group left here for Nash
ville, Tenn., for a study of small
industry. From there they will soccer team in a friendly match
won,
the steel industry and union or
ganization.
Their activities here included a
study of the organization of land
grant colleges and one and one
half days of discussing economic
problems involved in agricultural
financing and oil production.
They also engaged the A&M
trek to Pittsburgh, Pa., to inspect
Choir Travels
To State Fair
Next Week
The A&M Consolidated High
School Concert Choir will go to
the State Fair in Dallas next week.
Choir directors from Region III
chose the choir to represent the
region in the mass music festival
to be held in the Cotton Bowl next
Tuesday night. The state regional
representative choirs will form a
mass choir of over 3,000 voices.
Pat Boone will be the feature
singer with the group.
Frank Coulter, choir director,
said the 65 members of his choir
will leave Tuesday morning before
6 a.m.
They will give a short program
at the Fair Tuesday morning. Their
selections will include “Clap Your
Hands,” “Faith” by Glarum and
“Madam Jeanette.”
The MSC Dance Committee is now sponsor
ing weekly dance lessons under the direc
tion of Manning Smith, a professional
dancer from College Station. The committee
Girl Shortage
estimates about 125 persons will take ad
vantage of the advanced or basic lessons
offered. Smith furnishes girls for the
classes. (Photo by Benny Gillis.)
yesterday afternoon — who
take your pick.
They left today by chartered bus
for their next stop—Nashville.
The trip will conclude in New
York, where they will study the
operation of the stock exchange
and money and banking facilities.
Frenchy Teaches
Tessies Manners
A “cultured French lady,”
name of Fifi La Tour recently
visited Texas Woman’s Univer
sity and declared: “Pm here to
teach you to act like ladies, talk
like ladies and see if you can be
treated like ladies.”
“Visit of the French lovely,
alias Tessie Nancy Edwards,
was recorded in the Daily Lass-
0, student newspaper of the uni
versity. The occasion was a re
cent “Howdy Dinner” at the
school.
The Lass-O said Fifi, “setting
a ladylike example . . . slinked
up to the stage” and began
teaching five Tessie “wrang
lers “proper dress and eti
quette.”
The meeting broke up to the
singing of “We’ll Be Real La
dies” to the tune of “The Aggie
W r ar Hymn.”
Telephone
Interrupts
Speech
Game
By GERRY BROWN
Battalion Staff W’riter
It was a critical point in the
game between A&M and the Uni
versity of Houston. The Aggies
were on the Cougar three yard
line. While most of the fans in
the stands were straining to see
what was going to happen one
Aggie supporter, Dr. John C. Cal
houn, vice chancellor for develop
ment of the A&M System, was
hurrying out of the stadium to
retuim to his office.
The reason: a very good one;
Calhoun was scheduled to make
an address to the Iowa Jets Lead
ership Conference which was meet
ing at Iowa State University at
8 p.m.
The problem: How to be in two
places at the same time. The so
lution: a 30 minute closed circuit
telephone talk between College
Station and Ames, Iowa.
On the far end of the telephone
line high school students repre
senting the Junior Engineering
Technical Society (JETS), spon
sors of the JETS clubs represent
ed, and various leaders of indus
try watched slides of Calhoun at
the same time that they listened
to his talk which was amplified by
loudspeakers.
Following the twelve minute
speech concerning engineering op
portunities, responsibilities and
education the students asked ques
tions and were answered by Cal
houn, who spent a total time of
30 minutes on the phone. Perhaps
in the near future such talks may
become commonplace with the
widespread use of “visional
phones”, which are being experi
mented with by telephone compa
nies now.
Incidentally, after making h i s
address, Calhoun returned to the
game and saw the entire second
half during which the Aggies fi
nally hit paydirt. ’
Freshman’ Named
As 4-H Delegate
To National Meet
Charles Lehmann. ’65, majoring
in agriculture, was recently named
a delegate to % the National 4-H
Club Congress which will be held
in Chicago, Nov. 26-30.
In announcing the appointment,
Floyd Lynch, State 4-H Club
leader, said that Lehmann will
receive the all-expense paid trip
to the congress under the awards
program sponsored by Humble Oil
and Refining Co. of Houston. In
Chicago, Lehmann will be compet
ing for one of 12 $400 college
scholarships.
Lehmann is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Willie Lehmann, Route 4,
La Grange. He is a member of
the Winchester Community 4-H
Club and is completing his sixth
year of 4-H Club woi’k.
For the past two years the trac
tor program has been a favorite
demonstration of Lehmann. In
1960 he won first in the county,
second in district and third in the
state contest in tractor driving.
This year he placed first at all
three levels and in October he is
scheduled to represent the state
in the central regional contest to
be held in Dallas as part of the
State Fair of Texas.
A&M. the oldest institution of higher learning in Texas,
is 85 years old today.
Texas’ land grant school, which started as a small and
unimposing school on the edge of the frontier, has grown
with the state to an impressive university.
A mere 40 students were present when the college was
dedicated Oct. 4, 1876. This semester, 85 autumns later, en
rollment had climbed to 7,694.
There were two buildings at the beginning, both brick
and three stories high. From this nucleus has blossomed
more than 60 major buildings comprising classrooms, lab
oratories, industrial and engineering shops, administrative
buildings and dormitories. The 4 "
original 2,416-acre grant of
land has grown until the total
acreage is more than 10.000.
A&M was established under
the provisions of the Morrill Land
Grant College Act of 1862. Its
purpose was stated during the 1876
inauguration ceremonies by Gov.
Richard Coke:
“It has been the aim of the board
to bring down to the lowest pos
sible figure the cost of an educa
tion which shall be at the same
time thorough, liberal and prac
tical. The leading objective of this
college is to be, without excluding
other scientific and classical stud
ies and including military tactics,
to teach such branches of learning
as are related to agriculture and
mechanic arts.”
President Earl Rudder said in
his inauguration address in 1960,
the college as a land grant insti
tution, is an outgrowth of a unique
and distinctive feature of the great
American enterprise.
“A&M came into being in an
swer to a democratic demand for
an educational opportunity for the
young men of Texas. This educa
tion was to be provided at the
(See ANNIVERSARY on Page 3)
Band Carnival
Slated At CHS
Plans have been completed for
A&M Consolidated High School’s
annual band carnival to be held
Saturday night.
An outdoor concert by the band
will kick-off activities at 5:30
p.m., followed by a performance
by the Bengal Belles, A&M Con
solidated’s girl drill team. Next
on the agenda will be the intro
ductions of the football team.
The school cafeteria will open
shortly after 5:30 p.m. serving
hamburgers, drinks and homemade
baked goods. Hot dogs, popcorn
and candy will also be sold in the
carnival activity area.
Numerous members of the Col
lege Station Lions Club will assist
in games and sales of various
items. For the first time this year,
pennants and decals of A&M Con
solidated High School will be for
sale at the carnival.
The carnival committees and
their chairmen have been an
nounced by Mrs. Frank Brown III,
general chairman. They are as fol
lows: Hamburgers, Mr. and Mrs.
C. K. Hancock; hot dogs, Mr. and
Mrs. H. D. Perry; coffee, Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Sheppard; cold drinks,
Rev. Levi Gentry; pies and cakes,
Mrs. Marvin Butler; popcorn, Dr.
A. S. Isbell; hayride, J. O. Alex
ander; spook house, Franklin Per
ry, Leslie Bruce and Thomas Ed
wards; country store, Mrs. M. R.
Callihan; fish pond, Mi's. A. B.
Medlen and Mrs. J. R. Brazzel;
beauty bar, Mrs. J. R. Brown, as
sisted by band twirlers Carolyn
Brazzell, Margaret Brown, Sherry
Holland and Susan Medlen;
grounds, C. W. Brannan; fortune
teller booth, Dr. and Mrs. Richard
Davis; publicity, Mrs. Curtis Hol-
land; announcements, Wayne
Stark; tattoo and artist booth,
Paul Medlin, Mike Conn and Joan
Moore; variety show, Sally Shep
pard; and balloon sales, Frank
Brown III and Curtis Holland.
The Band Boosters Club, com
posed of parents of band mem
bers, is sponsoring the carnival.
Mr. and Mrs. Garlyn Hoffman are
serving as president of the club.
Dean Stresses
Progress In
Food Nutrition
Dr. R. E. Patterson, dean of
agriculture at A&M, today ad
dressed the Texas Nutrition Con
ference being held Oct. 4-6, empha
sizing that only through progress
and rapid change will agriculture
meet the nutritional requirements
of a growing American Public.
The dean said that change and
progress is just as important to
agriculture as it is to any other
major industry.
“This is the era of change. If
we are two or three years behind
the times, it is equivalent to our
dads having been 20 or 30 years
behind. To be effective in our era,
we must be knowledgeable; to be
knowledgeable we must be mod
ern; to be modern we must under
stand the dynamics of progress and
rapid change,” he said.
The dean outlined the techno
logical revolution in agriculture
and the tremendous strides forward
in nutrition science at the state,
national, and international levels.
“Our research at A&M has con-
ti'ibuted significantly to the pool
of knowledge in nutrition science
through out work with vitamins,
minerals, proteins, antibiotics, ir
radiation, ruminant nutrition, and
the recent isolation of a new growth
factor,” the speaker said.
Referring to the future. Dr.
Patterson said, “By 1975 we will
have 50 million more Americans
and they will require at least an
additional 50 billion pounds of
meat, eggs and milk alone.
“Feed manufacturing will be
come increasingly complicated, and
pharmaceutical and chemical in
dustries will become increasingly
important affiliates of the feed in
dustry,” he added.
The dean also predicted that
“state colleges and other govern
ment institutions will be inci’eas-
ingly involved in nutrition research
and education, developing new nu
trients, and helping determine
their applications to animal feed
ing and human nutrition.”
Hall Chosen
A&S Chief 1
Malcolm Hall, ’62, from Bal
linger, Monday was elected presi
dent of the Arts and Sciences
Council at the organization’s first
meeting of the school year.
Other officers elected were Willie
Bednar, vice president; Wayne
Sellman, secretary-treasurer; Rich
ard Waghorn, senior representa
tive to the inter-council committee;
Sheldon Best, junior inter-council
committee representative, and
Hugh Magers, corresponding sec
retary.
Hall urged each council member
to submit three ideas for projects-
during the year. A committee,
composed of David Mueller, Don
Burnett, Larry Wallace, Bruce Mc
Daniel and Bobby Dodson, was
named to screen these ideas and
plan programs.
Dr. Frank W. R. Hubert, Dean
of the School of Aits and Sciences,
reviewed the past growth of the
college and reminded the delegates
of future expectations.
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